Problem Note 14161: SAS® programs opened from Windows Explorer are appended to existing SAS code if SAS code is in the Enhanced Editor window
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Starting in SAS 9, if you have SAS program statements in an Enhanced Editor window, then switch to Microsoft Windows Explorer and choose Open with SAS 9.1 for a .SAS file, the SAS program opens in the current SAS 9 session, but it appends to the SAS program statements already in the Enhanced Editor window.
Currently the only circumvention is to avoid opening existing SAS programs through Windows Explorer. You can either open the existing SAS program by clicking on File > Open from the SAS menus or, in the SAS Explorer window, navigate to the existing SAS program through the My Computer icon.
Note: If you are using the SAS Program Editor instead of the SAS Enhanced Editor, then appending to the existing SAS code is the default behavior.
This behavior is changed in SAS 9.2. SAS Note 32416 explains the new behavior.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2008-07-24 07:54:20 |
| Date Created: | 2005-01-11 10:24:20 |